A delivery driver delayed by roadworks on a rural Stirling road attacked and injured a roadworker there.
Ross Mackintosh carried out the assault on Bruce Steele on the southbound carriageway of the A84 at Kilmahog on November 16 last year.
The 44-year-old had admitted a charge of assaulting Mr Steele to his injury near the A821 turn off for Aberfoyle.
Mackintosh had shouted and swore at the roadworker and repeatedly punched him on the head and kicked him on the body.
This caused Mr Steele to fall to the ground causing the injury.
Mackintosh’s lawyer told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday that Mr Steele had been in charge of controlling the traffic that day.
The road had been partially closed due to a fallen tree.
Only one carriageway was passable and Mackintosh had driven along it.
He “then got into an argument with the workman” according to his lawyer.
Mackintosh then got out of his van and “behaved in the manner described” in the charge.
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The solicitor told Sheriff Keith O’Mahony that his client had lost his job as a result of the incident, adding: “That might be some relief given the twists and turns of being a delivery driver at the time of Covid.”
There were no outstanding cases before the court and Mackintosh had no assault convictions on his record, which showed a 2017 conviction for an offence committed the previous year.
The court heard he had since managed to find agency work as an electrician’s mate earning around £400 per week, “but with the [Christmas] shutdown extending early into New Year who knows what will happen then.”
Sheriff O’Mahony sentenced Mackintosh, of Rosyth, to a community payback order comprising 12 months’ supervision and 110 hours’ unpaid work as an alternative to custody.
